Roper V. Simmons
By Supreme Court of the United States
Release : 2005-03-01
Genre : Law, Books, Professional & Technical
Kind : ebook
This case requires us to address, for the second time in a decade and a half, whether it is permissible under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States to execute a juvenile offender who was older than 15 but younger than 18 when he committed a capital crime. In Stanford v. Kentucky, 492 U. S. 361 (1989), a divided Court rejected the proposition that the Constitution bars capital punishment for juvenile offenders in this age group. We reconsider the question.
Roper V. Simmons
By Supreme Court of the United States
Release : 2005-03-01
Genre : Law, Books, Professional & Technical
Kind : ebook